State Dept Blames Protesters for Getting Attacked by Ukraine Military

The US State Department responded to Ukraine’s military assault on the southeastern city of Mariupol today with a statement condemning the protesters that were killed by Ukraine’s invading tanks for “jeopardizing public order.”

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki insisted the violence was caused by “pro-Russian separatists” and insisted that their protesters were being carried out “in violation of Ukrainian law.”

Though some of the protesters are indeed separatists, much of the movement in the east is simply seeking increased autonomy and guarantees of the rights of the ethnic Russian minority that dominates the east.

The State Department demanded that the protesters immediately disarm and abandon all public buildings to the incoming Ukrainian military, following this up with a call for Russia to similarly demand an end to all public protests in Ukraine’s east.

Author: Jason Ditz

Isnt it ironic the Group that the State Department is backing did the exact same thing LESS than a year ago to a democratically elected Government! NOT A WORD SAID THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This lot wasn't even elected, yet the US State Department thinks they have a lawful status!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1984 NEWSPEAK on steroids

MarkU

The May elections were agreed before the putsch. The Kiev junta does not want elections, it doesn't want national unity, everything it does is deliberately divisive.

We are really dealing with fascists, this is not hyperbole.

Jascon

No real surprise. They've been blaming US protestors for getting in the way of the US police for many years now. Its been very typical to blame protestors for any 'violent protest', even when almost all the 'violence' is committed by the police. Heck, the US just convicted a woman of assaulting an officer because she unwittingly placed her breast in the way of the hand of a groping police officer. That apparently is worth 7 years in an American prison.

The DEMONIC State Department is INSANE BEYOND ALL UNDERSTANDING. As Amerika HAS BEEN captured by the ZIONISTS ITS policy will result in UTTER & MASSIVE DESTRUCTION to the Amerikan heartland & its inhabitants..

Sceptic

Fewer and fewer people outside Amerika believe anything the US regime says. Whatever the US regime says, I usually just assume the exact opposite is true. Whatever crimes the US regime says the latest Hitler of the Month Club nominee is guilty of committing are usually the crimes the US regime itself is committing.

It will probably shock the average USAn to discover that in the rest of the world, the 2 greatest dangers to world peace are generally considered to be the USA and “israel”.

Nobody believes that Amerika has the least interest in the welfare of poor black girls in Africa, so why are we suddenly flooded with stories about the issue?

ron

I'll add a third to your list and say the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization is right up there too.

ron

I'll add a third to your list and say the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization is right up there too.

Alex

With that kind of mentality,state department will soon accuse jews that they have been killed in nazi camps.What is appening with tese twisted brains ?

There's an article on Foreign Policy magazine presenting the ethnic Russian "separatists" as a threat for violent antisemitism against the Jewish community – while at the same time presenting Right Sector as the protector of the Jewish community!

Only the highly misinformed would believe such trash…

Sceptic

Fewer and fewer people outside Amerika believe anything the US regime says. Whatever the US regime says, I usually just assume the exact opposite is true. Whatever crimes the US regime says the latest Hitler of the Month Club nominee is guilty of committing are usually the crimes the US regime itself is committing.

It will probably shock the average USAn to discover that in the rest of the world, the 2 greatest dangers to world peace are generally considered to be the USA and “israel”.

Nobody believes that Amerika has the least interest in the welfare of poor black girls in Africa, so why are we suddenly being flooded with stories about the issue? Perhaps it’s psychological preparation for yet another war?

The FedGov looks approvingly upon the slaughter of people who resist oppression by its minions. This has domestic implications for Americans, most of whom are too stupid to realize that they are being oppressed.

jtt

No they don't, the approval ratings only belongs to those who are members of the "kiss a** club," Assad is not one of them, they blame him instead of the protesters…. Muammar Gaddafi….and the list goes on.

Yes. Most people are not concerned in the slightest about the unprecedented lock down of the entire city of Boston. Nothing like that happened in Atlanta after the bombing at the Olympics. It would have been unthinkable, but not now.

Michael Kenny

"Invading" tanks? Really! The lesson behind all of these events is, as in ex-Yugoslavia and the two world wars, that nationalism is bad for your health! It gets people killed. That's precisely why the EU was set up. 200 years after the Congress of Vienna, 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, 75 years after the outbreak of WWII and 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what better proof could there be that Europeans must act together to ensure peace and stability on this continent than present events in Ukraine?

The EU comes out of the European Community and goes back to the Coal and Steel Community and the The Schuman Declaration of May 9, 1950.

What is needed is to emancipate the European Union from American hegemony. It is unbelievable that European states tolerate being vassal, client states for Washington. Thanks to Cathrine Ashton, the European External Action service is another tool of Washington.

As an American, I want George Washington's foreign policy and that "splendid isolation" of the past. My country should come home and stop looking for dragons to slay!

RICinOR

For those paying attention, the stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. Three months ago the US State Dept. had a very different opinion on protesters and building occupations, but that was before Nuland's man "Yats" and his fascist legion took over the government by force.

curmudgeonvt

This whole thing stinks…the USG cannot really be this stupid. But, I guess if the USG can support Maliki when he's hip-deep in sectarian cleansing and the Israelis totally committed to genocide and the creation of a second-class population (those who survive, of course) then I guess the supporting of neo-Nazi fascists is not beyond the pale. Shame on the American people for standing quietly as the USG continues to destroy the American reputation, such s it is.

rarrbo

…It's their fault if they got killed unarmed…they should have been heavily armed and return fire to the ukrnian army….puppets….????

CanuckBC

Sorry guys, I have to toss cookies. Not Nuland's this time they are Psaki's.